Visits to the Art Gallery of NSW & Library

This week)12th September 2020, I sought the opportunity to go and visit the NSW Art Galleries library, looking for artists that worked with waste.

Unfortunately this week (SEPTEMBER), it did not bring up any thing significant towards my current work.

Here is what I found:

ARTIST RESEARCH CAVA 390

Aime Ntakiyica: African Artist that works with plastic, Librarian suggests that I check her out online.

Huseyin Sami:

Straight away the the first books presentation presentation is in a cute bright light blue booklet.

Huseyin S & Cottier S 2010, “a beautiful waste” Huseyin Sami, Edition 16, viewed 9 September 2020, AGNSW LIBRARY.

This little book is not really of rubbish, however, it would be good for the mural course and it shows you options on paint distribution.

Book: David Mach 1990, “David Mach”, ArtRandom, SHASHIN KAGAKU, Kyoto Japan.: HIGH & DRY / Century 87, Heiligewegbad, Amsterdam / August 1987/ Photographer – James Hinders

Rosalie Gascoigne: her works definitely dealt with waste however more so on found object and relic items such as old bee hives to create her assemblages, ignage, lots of signage.

Book:Ritchie C, 1999, “waste management”, 11 July 1999, Art Gallery of Ontario, Viewed AGNSW, Toronto.

“ The category of waste is dialectically linked to the category of value.” (Christina Ritchie 1999)

“ Thus, waste management refrains from constricting a theoretical framework, preferring to explore the metaphorical possibilities that the term invites” (Christina Ritchie 1999)

Sandra Rechico 1999 floor in Shards II (1997-99)

Tom Freidman Untitled (1995)

Germain Koh Sightings (1992)

Germain Koh Knitwork (1992, ongoing) : life long undertaking in which Koh will unravel and renit the yarn from cast-off garments into a single disturbing object.

Micheal Landy- Scrapheap Services (1995)

Kelly Wood Continuous Garbage Project (1998)

David Shrigley  

Daniel Olson Ballet mecanique (1998): works with mass-produced mechanical toys and produces a sound loop. Ethically he will locate his toys from wil,l not from consumers, he scavenges flea markets, charity shops and a broken-down a remnant of some long-ago childhood.

Jo Scanlan Tonto 1998